Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

Bits and pieces by Lois

Muddling through

Every Tuesday during term time    I volunteer to teach English to people whose first language is something else. I’m part of a team of six, although we sometimes have other helpers as well; there is one person who is, I suppose our co-ordinator  . She is not a teacher, but a lovely, warm person, […]

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A jolly little fellow

I don’t know what this little canal boat was used for… maybe it was just to whiz up and down the canals ferrying people back and forth rather than big cargoes of iron ore, cola or whatever else canal boats carried. Here it is now, seemingly abandoned in still water, weeds growing all around it, […]

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A perforated pot

Do you think this was to hold embers or some other slow burning material to give out heat? Do you think a candle was put inside to give out light, and maybe was it used outside on summer evenings? Do you think rose petals and spices were kept in it as a sort of pot […]

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